Billiard-table leveler



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P. 'BAOHER.

BILLIARD TABLE LEVELER,

Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

WITNESSES:

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PETER TEACHER, OF CANTON, OHIO.

BlLLiARD-TABLE LEVELER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,816,61ated February 1,1887.

Application filed October 14,1986. Serial. No. 216,250. (No model.)

To all? whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER BAOHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Billiard-Table Levelers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hilliardtahle levelers; and it consists of the hereinafter-described means by wh ich the table may be adjusted.

My invention also relates to the detail and combination of parts, as described, and set forth in the claims.

Figure l is an elevation of a billiardtahle leg, showing the leveler applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of some. Fig. 3 isaview, partly sectional, comprising the three sections of my improved leveler detached and enlarged, which will he lettered and explained hereinafter. Fig. 4 is a View of a wrench by which the leveler may be operated.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin all of the figures of the drawings.

Letter A, Fig. 1, represents a billiard table leg having my improvementattached thereto. The plate B, on which the table-leg rests, is pro vided with spurs a, which penetrate the wood to prevent the leg from moving on the plate. There is also a downwardly-projecting flange, b, as a means of strengthening the plate B as well as for ornamentation. From the center of said plate B there is a downwardly-proj ected huh, 0, having an annular peripheral screwthread, (I. The not D is provided with a central perforation, f, in which there is a th read, 9, adapted to the thread d on huh G, and about which the nut D may be rotated, as hereinafter explained. The said nut is also provided with a 'downwardl projected neck, h, which is formed by cutting away the metal from the lower section of the nut D, as shown, and by which operation is also formed the shoulder 75. The lower end of the neck It is provided with clinch-fingers 'm, hereinafter explained.

The base or bottom piece, E, may be semispheroidal in form, concaved on its nnder side, as shown, and having on its upper side a face, a, and a perforation, 0, which are adapted to the neck It and shoulder is of the nut D, the neck of the said not having been passed through the perforation o. The clinch-fingers m may 5 be turned back on the nndersideof piece E, as shown in Fig. 2. The nut D, with the bottom piece, E, attached, may be turned onto the threaded hub G, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, which completes the construction. 6

The several parts mentioned may he made of any suitable metal, preferably of brass or malleable iron.

The operation is as follows: Place the leveler under the leg of the table, the points a 6 penetrating the wood, the plate E resting on the door. Turn the nut D with the wrench F, Fig. 4, moving it up or down on the hub O, as may be required to level the top of the table.

Having thus fully described the nature and 7 operation of my invention, that I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the plate B, having the downwardlvprojecting threaded hub, 7 of the nut having a peripheral shoulder and a series of clinch fingers or projections, an, and the baseplate adapted to receive the nut and provided with a bearing-surface for the peripheral shoulder of the nut, substantially as 3 set forth.

2. The combination, with the plate B, having a depending screw-threadedhnb, of abaseplate having a central opening and a nut adapted to receive the screw-threaded hub of 8 the plate B, the said nnthavinganeck adapted to enter the opening in the base-plate and a shoulder adapted to rest on the top of said base plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 0 October, A. D. 1886.

hand this 11th day of PETER BAOHER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. R. MILLER, W. K. MILLER. 

